In this episode, Dr. Clark discusses how we come to faith through grace alone and how that grace is God’s divine favor. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: How Did We Come to Faith? (Part 7)
Heartfelt Corporate Worship Produces Genuine Societal Change
People are perverted, and Christians are people too. Hopefully that grabs your attention. By perverted, I mean its most basic definition of “twisted, distorted, warped.” One thing that “perverted Christians” have warped is discerning how societal change comes about. Continue reading →
Your Church Lectern Is Not A Reformation Pulpit
Initially reformers focused on the furniture, replacing the central altar with a pulpit as the locus of significance. The protestant pulpit of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—huge, intricately carved, and looming high above the main floor of the church—improved hearing and served . . . Continue reading →
Coming Wednesday October 7, 2026: Heidelcast Live!
At 8AM Pacific/11AM Eastern Join the Heidelcast for a live streaming event as the Heidelverse expands to include a new show featuring R. Scott Clark and Brad Isbell. Heidelcast Live! will be live at 8:00 AM Pacific and 11:00 AM Eastern, Wednesday . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: How Did We Come to Faith? (Part 6)
In this episode, Dr. Clark answers the question, “Do we attain new life because we believe, or do we believe because we’ve been given new life?” The Holy Spirit works when and where he will, and it’s through the work of the Spirit that humans are enabled to hear the word with believing ears. Continue reading →
Learning to Die from Augustine: The Forgotten Christian Art of Dying Well (Part 1)
Death is a difficult topic for modern Christians. We know that we will die. We confess it in our theology, see it in our families, and hear it announced in prayer meetings, hospital rooms, and funeral homes. Yet for all that, many . . . Continue reading →
Christians Have Always Been “Strangers And Aliens”
Smith, argues that within the pagan “matrix of assumptions, the Christian view of sexuality was not only radically alien, it was close to incomprehensible.” About this he is certainly right historically. But consider that the Christian view of sexuality is today, within . . . Continue reading →
Andrews: The Root Of Campus Fanaticism Is Money
Paglia was also a more acute critic than Bloom, because she realized that the so-called tenured radicals were not really radicals at all but apple polishing class president types, or else plain hucksters. All the real radicals had flamed out on drugs . . . Continue reading →
Get Married, Have Children (Part 2)
So far, we have considered the cultural pressure for parents not to “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen 1:28), whether it comes from Malthusian theories of future scarcity, Paul Ehrlich’s theoretical “population bomb,” or Millennial and Gen Z fears about the state of . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 21–27, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of September 21–27, 2026. Continue reading →
Heidelcast For September 27, 2026: Pastoral Ministry with Special Guest Rev. Scott McDermand II
In this episode of the Heidelcast, Rev. Scott McDermand joins Dr. Clark in studio to discuss pastoral ministry, particularly what Rev. McDermand has learned since graduating from seminary and then being called to shepherd God’s people at First Presbyterian Church in Bad Axe, Michigan. They discuss the character of a pastor and how Rev. McDermand’s perspective has changed and/or matured over the years. Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The Nature of Christ’s Humanity—Could Jesus Make Mistakes?
In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends discuss the nature of Christ’s humanity. Continue reading →
The Mountain Is Not Yet Ascended: The King And His People As The Nations Rage In Psalms 25–33 (Part 4)—Psalm 27 And The Place Of Peace
A few people at my high school really did not like me. One day in biology class, two students started throwing scissors at me. The teacher decided not to do anything, so they continued until class ended. You might imagine that this . . . Continue reading →
Nazism Was An Alternative Religion
While it was a remark [about the Jehovah’s Witnesses] that illustrated how much the leadership of the SS understood that they were running a faith-based organization, it also brought to the surface a fundamental problem Himmler faced in constructing the mentality required . . . Continue reading →
Haidt On The Advent Of The Phone-Based Childhood
The opening of smartphones to third-party apps led to fierce competition among companies large and small to create the most engaging mobile apps. The winners of this race were often those that adopted free-to-to-use, advertising-based business models because few consumers would pay . . . Continue reading →
Video: Selling Jesus—Why Witnessing Isn’t a Sales Pitch
Why do Reformed Christians get a reputation for being bad at evangelism? Dr. R. Scott Clark, who once taught Evangelism Explosion, joins Rev. Chris Gordon to talk honestly about the pressure tactics he learned as a young Southern Baptist, why he came . . . Continue reading →
Review: Against Worldview: Reimagining Christian Formation As Growth In Wisdom By Simon P. Kennedy
I have spent my teaching career in classical Christian schools, where the language of “worldview” is nearly impossible to escape. It appears in mission statements and curriculum guides, in faculty meetings and lesson plans, and in conversations about everything from literature and . . . Continue reading →
Christian Nationalism Is Still Cosplay
But if we are absolutely no closer in 2026 to enacting anything resembling a Christian nationalist agenda, it is hard to see the conversation as little more than an unnecessary distraction at this point. Not that Christians engaging in politics is a . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: How Did We Come to Faith? (Part 5)
In this episode, Dr. Clark reminds us that God’s answer to our sin is the “golden chain,” found in Romans 8:28 – 30. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: How Did We Come to Faith? (Part 4)
In this episode, Dr. Clark says that free choice might not mean what you is does. He discusses three approaches on how the church has historically tried to explain free choice, and gives us a distinction between free choice and free will. Continue reading →